Relative Importance of a Players Impact on Teammate Shooting Percentage
A month and a half ago Eric T at NHLNumbers.com had a good post on quantifying the impact on teammate shooting percentage. I wanted to take a second look at the relative importance the impact on...
View ArticlePlayer TOI usage charts
One of the challenges in hockey analytics, or any type of data analysis, is how to best visualize data in a way that is exceptionally informative and yet really simple to understand. I have been...
View ArticleThe declining value of fenwick/corsi with increased sample size
The last several days I have been playing around a fair bit with team data and analyzing various metrics for their usefulness in predicting future outcomes and I have come across some interesting...
View ArticleThoughts on Hockey Analytics
It seems every time a new hockey person gets hired these days they will get asked “do you believe in hockey analytics?” It started with Trevor Linden in Vancouver. Then Brendan Shanahan in Toronto. And...
View ArticleWhy can’t players boost a goalies save percentage?
The other day I put up a post on Mike Weaver’s and Bryce’s Salvador’s possible ability to boost their goalies save percentage and I followed it up with a post on the Maple Leafs defensemen where we saw...
View ArticleIntroducing “Rush” shots
I have been pondering doing this for a while and over the past few days I finally got around to it. I have had a theory for a while that an average shot resulting from a rush up the ice is more...
View ArticleRush Shots Leading vs Trailing and Home vs Road
Yesterday I introduced the concept of rush shots which are basically any shot we can identify as being a shot taken subsequent to a rush up the ice which can be determined by the location of previous...
View ArticleColumbus Blue Jackets and Rush Shots
Before I get into rush shots of individual players I am going to look at some teams. I am starting with the Columbus Blue Jackets which was suggested for me to look at by Jeff Townsend who was...
View ArticleLeafs, Kings and Devils – Rush goals and shooting percentage
Tyler Dellow has an interesting post on differences between the Kings and Leafs offensive production. He comes at the problem from a slightly different angle than I have explored in my rush shot series...
View ArticleRelative importance of Corsi and the other 42%
Today apparently there was some discussion about the Avalanche and their non-interest in hockey analytics. In that discussion Corey Pronman wrote the following tweet: @ThomasDrance @adater point is...
View ArticleEstimating Standard Deviation in On-ice Shooting Percentage Talent
I have tackled the subject of on-ice shooting percentage a number of times here but I think it is a subject that has been under researched in hockey analytics. Historically people have done some split...
View ArticleThe Value of Outliers
Ryan Stimson has been doing some valuable work tracking passes and this morning he posted an interesting analysis of the data he (and others) have collected thus far. It is a very interesting article...
View ArticleWhat are Rel and RelTM stats?
This came up in a twitter conversation today and since I will be referencing both of these as part of my RIT Hockey Analytics Conference talk it might be a good idea to re-introduce them to anyone who...
View ArticleSummary of RIT Hockey Analytics Conference
This past weekend I attended and spoke at the Rochester Institute of Technology Hockey Analytics Conference and because it was such a great conference I wanted to write up some of my thoughts on the...
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